An estimated 600 non-Syrian suspects are being held by Kurdish forces in Syria. The US has been trying to find places to send them, and managed to get about two dozen of them sent to their nations of origin.

That may not be an option in many cases, as these people are from around 50 different countries, and officials say in many cases, those countries are just not interested in having them back. How long the Kurdish YPG and its allies will want to keep them is anyone’s guess.

This detention system is legal limbo in the first place, and Guantanamo Bay is just a different legal limbo. Going into the ISIS war, US officials downplayed the idea of this being a problem, saying they figured all the ISIS would be killed, not captured.

That was never realistic, however. Now, ISIS-linked people who are captured are a long-term issue, and there is neither any advanced planning on what to do with them, nor much interest in resolving the situation any time soon.

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..a bullet to the head. No more issues. See how easy that was. They deserve nothing less. They invaded a country that did them no harm, murdered its citizens,destroyed its cites and ruined the lives of MILLIONS.